The teen was charged with torture, inflicting pain or causing serious physical injury or death to an animal or cruelty to animals, classified as a third-degree felony. According to arrest records ...

A man who beat a German shepherd to death in Palm Springs pleaded guilty to a felony count of animal cruelty Wednesday ... according to case records. Judge Arthur Hester sentenced the defendant ...

according to court records. In late August, Donald C. Heenan, 67, of 23 George St., Westfield, was formally charged in Westfield District Court on one count of death of an animal by drowning ...